coztic (Mdz39r)

coztic (Mdz39r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This element for the adjective meaning yellow (coztic) has been carved from the compound place name, Acocozpan. The yellow is mixed with horizontal black lines because the color would be difficult to completely extract from the compound.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The color appears both in the water of the apantli (water channel or canal) and in the outer layer of the liner of the channel. Perhaps this fact could account for the reduplication of the "cocoz" element in the place name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
trapezoidal
horizontal
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

coz(tic), something yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic
-tic, a suffix for adjective-like substantives, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tic-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

el amarillo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 39 recto, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 88 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

See Also: 

Acocozpan (Mdz39r)